About This Artwork
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Bust of a Breton Woman Against a Landscapec. 1886/87
Charcoal, with traces of green pastel off-set, on ivory laid paper, discolored to cream
303 x 313 mm
Arthur Heun Fund, 1955.1023R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings from American Collections," February 3-March 15, 1959, cat. 170, pl 163; traveled to Rotterdam, Museum Boymans and Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture," February 12-March 29, 1959, p. 63, cat. 73; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-May 31, 1959.
Publication History
John Rewald, Post-Impressionism (New York, 1956), p. 309.
John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 24, no. 8 (ill.).
Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time III (New York, 1962), no. 823 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 58-59, no. 3E8.
Ownership History
Sold by Dr. Otto Wertheimer, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1955.